“He thought that I was after him for a feather---The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.”

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”

“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.”

“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”

“He thought he kept the universe alone;For all the voice in answer he could wakeWas but the mocking echo of his ownFrom some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.Some morning from the boulder-broken beachHe would cry out on life, that what it wantsIs not its own love back in copy speech,But counter-love, original response.And nothing ever came of what he criedUnless it was the embodiment that crashedIn the cliff's talus on the other side,And then in the far-distant water splashed,But after a time allowed for it to swim,Instead of proving human when it nearedAnd someone else additional to him,As a great buck it powerfully appeared,Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,And landed pouring like a waterfall,And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,And forced the underbrush--and that was all.”

“They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”